Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1902 — Ballooning For Consumption. [ARTICLE]

Ballooning For Consumption.

Ballooning is now receiving attention as a possible remedy for pulmonary affections. The conditions are not the same as those of mountaineering, the change of altitude being more rapid and muscular fatigue being absent. In the trips of the French Society of Physiology Dr. Ilenocque proposes to regard the atmosphere as divided into three zones. Up to about three miles the surrounding air supplies all the oxygen needed, but ascents beyond five miles are held to require a closed car, as was first suggested in 1871, or an aerial diving suit.